Is anyone coming down for Apex this weekend? Would be nice to reconnect with the Rochester folks.
If I’m not too Hollywood now, that is.
:eek: Hang on, lemme put my shades on.
Just got really bright in here.
We should play some sets where you triple perfect me, big guy. I’ve been tryna get my Storm back in action lately. D:
If I had funds I would be there, but alas I am only a poor college student 
LOL! you’re coming down? I dont know about triple perfects but we can play a set for sure. I think I’ll be staying the night on saturday, but I’m not 100% on it yet.
We’re all proud of you, Cole.
Just thought you should know.
woo thank you buddy I am doing my best! =D
lol you were watching that?
RAWKET RAWNCHER.
where’s apex at?
cole > nfl divisional round playoffs (if i don’t get fired this week, more cuts imminent).
They can’t fire you after they give you an iPad.
if we had that kinda planning, we wouldn’t be in this mess. anything’s possible for me this week: promotion, lay-off, gang-related execution (stemming from a bakery incident), etc.
It’s at Rutger’s University, down in New Brunswick. I’ll be there Saturday, although I don’t think Cole and I have met.
those pastry mafias rule the work force these days
Well,
I wish you all the best, my friend.
So,
I was doing some Krav Maga training just now and there’s this word they invoke a lot: retzev.
Retzev is hebrew for ‘continuous motion’. The idea in Krav Maga is that you should always be moving in any kind of encounter. Either you are aggressively attacking, dodging, or countering.
There’s never a time when you shouldn’t be doing nothing.
This got me thinking about Tekken. For me it’s easier to keep in mind the single word ‘retzev’ then to always tell myself to move.
Figure it helps sometimes to apply actual martial arts concepts to make things more intuitive.
I think this’ll help remind me to move more. Maybe it’ll work for you guys too.
:eek: This is particularly cool because I just got done reading some articles on krav maga over the weekend. Very interesting stuff.
BUT YES I like that application to your Tekken play. Very smart!
The cool thing about it is they don’t mess around. It’s as close to an actual killing art as I’ve ever seen. Last I knew because the potential for death/permanent injury is so high, they can’t have actual tournaments.
The most they can do is water it down for heavily scripted exhibitions.
The only other martial art as brutal and more secretive is Russian Systema. You can’t find anything about it.
I bought one of the only books published on it by an ex-GRU operative for $80.00 a few years back and even that was just general concepts rather than actual movesets.
Anyway, I’m off to grind this Tekken movement!
@Grifter - Magfest = Music and Gaming Festival. This year it was in National Harbor Maryland. It’s exactly what it sounds like: Music and Gaming.
In the console room there were lots of tekken heads, so that’s where I scooped up this new dirt.
Also played mad Alpha 2 on japanese arcade cabs 
Hell, I even played rainbow edition!
You guys need to help me stream monster on Yannick’s stream.
I’m hella jelly of you right now because the 1 time I got to play Alpha 2 in an arcade, the forward direction on the arcade stick was busted, and two punch buttons did not work.
BTW, that arcade was the front of a Wal-Mart. Super Street Fighter II cabinet w/ Alpha 2 on it and Crusin’ USA. :p:
Oh, Yannick’s streaming?
Consider him trolled.
Yeah, Matt. The Magfest arcade room was legit as hell. 96 hours of 1980-20XX goodness. Only problem with the A2 cab is that multiple people noted some input lag and one of the cabinets screens would dim frequently. Luckily they, swapped out A2 and ST, so the A2 was on a head to head cab with no input problems and the screen was hella bright.
That sounds radical. Please tell me they had some Neo-Geo MVS cabinets.